From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 11:28: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.net (sherline.net [216.203.226.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B9E237B41C for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4947 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 19:27:56 -0000 Received: from server.sherline.net (HELO server) (216.203.226.3) by sherline.net with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 19:27:56 -0000 Message-ID: <026c01c1898c$65bf30e0$03e2cbd8@server> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: References: <003701c18819$a9941a20$6600000a@ach.domain> <3C1FF8DA.2DBC501C@mindspring.com> <013b01c18844$b2ff8b50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C202951.D39F0144@mindspring.com> <005201c188b4$9bd4cd30$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> <013b01c188f1$b3788340$1400a8c0@blah.com> <000901c18931$b11daf40$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> <001001c1893b$a164d420$69cab8d0@blah.com> <000a01c18977$9007ac20$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> <20011221082103.A2821@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:22:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Apple's OS X is not what I would call a "unix". Certainly, the Mach based > > underlying kernel is unix-like, and the FreeBSD tools are unix-like. But > > the desktop is MacOS version 10. It may be the closest thing to Unix as a > > desktop, but I think they have more desktop and less Unix. > > Apple's OS X has as much right to be called UNIX as FreeBSD, Irix, > AIX, and any other variant out there. You're confusing the glitzy > front-end from the heart beneath beast. I believe I did differentiate between the kernel and the desktop, did I not ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message